Personal pronouns

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Módulo I: Online exercises “Personal Pronouns I & II”

LESSON PLAN Teacher:

Level: 1

Classroom:

Shi3:

Date:

Previous teaching Point: Occupa<ons, review of the modal “can”.

N. of SS: 15

Time: 60 min.

Aim: By the end of the class, Ss will recognize the personal pronouns by iden<fying pronouns and transposing them in a text.

Context: Famous Persons

General Objec<ve:

Grammar: Personal Pronouns

Task Teacher:

Skills: All and any

Time: 15 mins

Material: Projector, laptop, internet access, Personal Pronouns 1

Sea1ng Arrangement: Individual

Objec1ve: Ss will be tested on the basis of whether they have any knowledge about the personal pronouns by answering individually some fill-­‐in-­‐the-­‐blanks.

Lead in: Ok, guys, can you please pay aUen<on to the projec<on?

Procedure: 1. T will greet Ss. 2. T will ask Ss to focus their aUen<on on the projec<on.

3. T will state that in the ten sentences, we’re missing the person (noun) so we need to put a personal pronoun.

4. T will elicit informa<on about the personal pronouns and if anybody knows them.

4.1. If no one knows, T will write all of the personal pronouns in the board.

5. T will do a model with the first two sentences.

6. T will ask Ss to individually, complete the remaining 8 sentences.

7. T will give Ss 8 minutes to do so.

8. T will check the ac<vi<es (complete the fill-­‐in-­‐the-­‐blanks).

9. T will monitor the ac<vity.

10. T will elicit answers from Ss randomly by choosing one and then having this S to choose who is going to be next.

11. T will see how many they got correct.

Link: T will assess how their individual produc<on is with the monitoring and elicita<on of the sentences, so T can address any problems.

Possible Problems: • Ss may not know anything about the personal pronouns.

Possible Solu1ons: • Classmates can help; if there are none to rely on, T will move on to the “teach” part of the class.

Teach Teacher:

Skills: All and any

Time: 25 minutes

Material: Projector, laptop, internet access, Personal Pronouns II

Sea1ng Arrangement: Whole group

Objec1ve: Ss will define the personal pronouns through several examples with their own classmates by tackling on the mistakes the Ss had.

Lead in: Ok, guys, be honest, who got all of them correct?

Procedure: 1. T will ask Ss which of them got all of the answers correct.

2. T will check if its true by giving them more sentences.

2.1. T will make note of the amount of Ss that supposedly have knowledge of English.

3. T will take note.

4. T will ask everyone else how they did.

5. T will start elici<ng answers randomly to Ss and see whether they are correct or not.

6. T will grab a couple of the Ss that already know, one male and one female, and ask them to go to the front of the class.

7. T will ask for their names and make sentences.

8. T will ask which pronoun they would use. Then, T will make Ss to touch each other’s shoulder and elicit for the change of personal pronoun.

9. T will explain when and how personal pronouns are used.

10. T will ask Ss to answer the Personal Pronouns II. Possible Problems: • Ss may not understand

Possible Solu1ons: • T will explain more thoroughly.

Task Teacher: Material: None

Skills: Speaking

Time: 20 mins Sea1ng Arrangement: groups

Objec1ve: Ss will demonstrate the personal pronouns by presen<ng their friends to the group.

Lead in: Ok guys, I want you to get together with at least 5 friends but no more than 7.

Procedure: 1. T will tell students to make groups.

2. T will give one minute for the groups to be formed.

3. T will explain the ac<vity.

3.1. Ss will have to create sentences amongst themselves using the personal pronouns to present somebody.

3.2. Ss will have to have at at least one sentence per personal pronoun.

4. T will select a team and they will have to come to the front and act their sentences.

5. Ss will have to check whether they are correct or not.

6. T will ask another group to go to the front and act it in the same way.

Possible Problems: • Ss may be shy.

Possible Solu1ons: • T will help them in saying their sentences.